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Crosstex Processing Services has chosen UOP, a Honeywell subsidiary, to build fractionation equipment to extract petrochemical feedstocks from propane and ethane. Under the contract, UOP will also provide other necessary equipment, services and infrastructure for the fractionator.

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Ascend Performance Materials Operations unveiled its plan to install Honeywell's propane-to-propylene technology at its Gulf Coast facility. "Global propylene demand is growing at about 4-5 percent per year. The U.S. is seeing an increase in on-purpose propylene production because of the abundance of low-cost propane from shale gas," said Honeywell Senior Vice President Pete Piotrowski, who is also general manager of the company's UOP Process Technology and Equipment business unit.

Honeywell's UOP unit has been selected by Heilongjiang Anruijia Petrochemical in China to provide the C4 Oleflex process for isobutylene production. The production units are expected to be online in 2014. "In order to meet domestic demand for fuels, plastics, and other key materials, China is rapidly emerging as one of the largest petrochemical producers in Asia," said Peter Piotrowski, senior vice president and general manager at UOP Process Technology & Equipment.

Ethylene could one day be made quickly and cheaply from methane rather than ethane or naptha if a breakthrough by Honeywell pans out. "This will basically for the first time take natural gas and directly convert it to a chemical, not through a multistage process," said Rajeev Gautam, CEO of Honeywell's UOP unit. "At this point we have enough proof of principle, enough testing done that you can probably detect the excitement in my voice." Next for the company is a planned pilot plant.

Honeywell's UOP will provide key petrochemical technology to Zhejiang Shaoxing Sanjin Petrochemical's new propane-dehydrogenation unit in China. The Chinese firm will use the UOP C3 Oleflex process technology to convert propane to propylene. Aside from this technology, UOP will also provide technical service, staff training, engineering design, equipment, catalysts and adsorbents for the project, which is expected to begin operations in 2013.

Honeywell's UOP will provide production technology for a propane-dehydrogenation unit for Zhejiang Julong Petrochemical in China under a recently signed contract. Under the agreement, UOP will provide technical service, personnel training, technology licensing and design to build the project. The technology is set to begin operation by 2013 and is expected to produce more than 496,000 tons of propylene per year.